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Amazon Web Services Richmond County Data Center Campus

Rockingham, Richmond County, North Carolina · All 62 Amazon Web Services sites · Every Amazon case on our tracker

Under constructionSupportedAI confirmedRecord updated October 28, 2026

Amazon Web Services Richmond County Data Center Campus is a data center under construction in Rockingham, North Carolina (Richmond County), operated by Amazon Web Services. The public record puts it at announced June 2025, 800 acres, a reported $10 billion investment. It has documented public support and no documented opposition.

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Facility record

Under construction

Operator: Amazon Web Services
Facility type: Data center, AI use confirmed
Location: Airport Road, Rockingham, Richmond County, NC
Coordinates: 34.9445, -79.7750 (approximate)
Power capacity: Not established from a public source
Land: 800 acres
Investment: $10 billion
Announced: June 2025
Utility: Duke Energy
Power source: Grid
Cooling: Hybrid
Water use: Not established from a public source
Jobs: 500 permanent
Public subsidy: 50% property tax reduction; 65% personal property tax relief (20-year incentive package per building, contingent on $1B investment and 50 jobs by end of 2030), Richmond County, NC, 2025 | North Carolina state sales tax exemption on certain equipment (value can legally be kept secret, per Cardinal & Pine / Inside Climate News), North Carolina
Community reception: Supported
Source confidence: Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation

Timeline from the record

Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.

October 31, 2025
Under construction
Official groundbreaking at Energy Way Industrial Park, Rockingham Source: Data Center Dynamics
June 2025
Proposed
AWS announced $10 billion investment; largest single capital project in North Carolina history

Opposition and litigation at this site

Not that we can document. Local officials or residents have expressed public support for Amazon Web Services Richmond County Data Center Campus in Rockingham, Richmond County, North Carolina, and no opposition, petition, or lawsuit appears in the sources this registry tracks as of October 28, 2026. Groundbreaking ceremony October 31, 2025 attended by local and state officials; described as largest single capital project in NC history

How the community has taken it

Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: supported means local officials or residents have expressed public support and no opposition is documented.

Groundbreaking ceremony October 31, 2025 attended by local and state officials; described as largest single capital project in NC history

Source: Data Center Dynamics

Power and water

Sited adjacent to Duke Energy Sherwood H. Smith Jr. energy complex (2.24 GW natural gas capacity). Per Data Center Dynamics, how the data center will be powered has not been publicly revealed; Duke Energy is the regional utility but the facility's energy arrangement is unconfirmed.

Energy and water usage figures were made confidential under the county's April 2025 incentive agreement for 'Project Blue Marlin' and are not publicly disclosed.

Public money on the record

Program	Amount	Granted by	Year
50% property tax reduction; 65% personal property tax relief (20-year incentive package per building, contingent on $1B investment and 50 jobs by end of 2030)	Not established	Richmond County, NC	2025
North Carolina state sales tax exemption on certain equipment (value can legally be kept secret, per Cardinal & Pine / Inside Climate News)	Not established	North Carolina

Notes on the record

Energy Way Industrial Park, Rockingham, NC. Up to 20 buildings each 200,000-225,000 sq ft at full build. Local county tax breaks apply, and Cardinal & Pine (reporting by Inside Climate News) says Amazon would also receive state sales tax exemptions on certain equipment, the value of which can legally be kept secret. MW capacity not publicly disclosed. Coordinates are Rockingham city centroid. Original secondary source (richmondnc.com/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=168) was no longer available as of July 2026 and was replaced with Business NC article. A previously recorded powering arrangement was removed: DCD reports the method of powering has not been publicly confirmed.

What the record does not establish, and the document that would

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Power capacity in megawatts

Which document closes each gap

Power capacity in megawatts: The utility's large load service agreement, the interconnection request in the grid operator's queue, or the electrical site plan in the permit file.

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Other sites within 30 miles

Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.

Terra Nexus Rockingham Data Center (Old Cheraw Highway) · Rockingham · Terra Nexus Land Fund I, LLC2 mi · Permitted · Mixed reception

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Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Amazon Web Services Richmond County Data Center Campus in Rockingham?

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Amazon Web Services Richmond County Data Center Campus?

No lawsuit over Amazon Web Services Richmond County Data Center Campus appears in the record we track as of October 28, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.

How much water does Amazon Web Services Richmond County Data Center Campus use?

No water withdrawal figure for Amazon Web Services Richmond County Data Center Campus is on record here. Cooling is recorded as hybrid, which is the strongest available clue: closed loop and air cooled plant draw far less than evaporative cooling. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.

Who operates Amazon Web Services Richmond County Data Center Campus, and how big is it?

Amazon Web Services is the operator on record. We hold 62 sites for that company across the registry. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 800 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Amazon Web Services Richmond County Data Center Campus," updated October 28, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/aws-richmond-county-nc.

Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.34.1 (October 4, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/aws-richmond-county-nc, retrieved October 29, 2026.

Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.

Sources for this record

As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.

1.Amazon breaks ground on $10bn data center complex in Richmond County, North Carolina · Data Center Dynamics · retrieved July 6, 2026
2.Amazon plots state record $10B data center project in Richmond County · Business North Carolina · retrieved July 6, 2026
3.Inside the secretive deal for a $10 billion Amazon data center in rural NC · Cardinal & Pine (reporting by Inside Climate News) · retrieved August 15, 2026
4.DEQ announces joint public hearing on Amazon data center and Duke Energy air quality permits in Richmond County · North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality · retrieved September 24, 2026
5.Amazon's Richmond County data center gets green light on air quality permits · WUNC · retrieved August 29, 2026
6.Why one North Carolina county said yes to Amazon's $10 billion data center · WRAL · retrieved September 24, 2026

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